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Farnsworth House Becomes Latest Lego Architecture Set to Store Away From Sticky Fingers

We thought Lego would never bring out another set in its Architecture series, but here we go—the beautiful Farnsworth House, which you may recognize thanks to its mid-century modernism design and National Historic Landmark seal-of-approval. https://gizmodo.com/lego-micro-scales-frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-hous-5263558 Designed and constructed between 1945 – 1051 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the house is located in Illinois.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8

Recording a Police Officer Could Get You 15 Years in Jail

Citizens recording their public interactions with police sure seems like the kind of thing that would prevent corruption, harassment and bad behavior by cops. Just don’t do it in Illinois, where it’s punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Sixty-year-old Chicago artist Christopher Drew is currently facing an eavesdropping charge because he recorded his…

Tech News Max Read Jan 24

Abraham Lincoln As You’ve Never Seen Him

Follow the 16th President of the United States from his meteoric rise to his untimely demise in stunning stereoscope! In 1839, when photography shouldered its way onto the world stage with a visual splendor unlike anything preceding it, Abraham Lincoln, at thirty, was nurturing a young political career as a third-term legislator in the Illinois…

Tech News Bob Zeller & John J. Richter Dec 21

Kites Back In the Olden Days Were a Lot More Serious-Looking

Serious, you ask? Serious, I say—just look at the collection of kites below, that were flown on a windy day back in 1957 at the University of Illinois‘ Kite Derby Day. Each is more mathematical-inspired than the last. They’re certainly a world away from the colorful cartoon-like kites flown by kids on grassy knolls nowadays,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 31

Pluto’s Rightful Place Is Regained… Kind Of

Now Illinois has something else going for it in addition to that Sufjan Stevens album that isn’t as good as it should’ve been; the Prairie State has declared that Pluto is still, officially, a planet. The Illinois State Senate has resolved that not only was Pluto’s 2006 downgrading to a dwarf planet unfair, but that…

io9 Graeme McMillan Mar 7

Instant Hot Tub? Just Add Water and Quicklime

This is how you make a hot tub, hillbilly style. Three guys from the prairies of Illinois turned an old stock tank sitting in the open air into a jacuzzi, and heated it up using quicklime, that scary caustic stuff that burns your skin off if you’re not too careful. A video of how they…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Apr 18

Father and Sons Build Electric Car—a Popemobile for Pharaohs

Greg Zanis’ Dream Car is a solar-powered pyramid on four wheels that he built at home with the help of his two sons. Deceptively fragile, this little one-seater weighs in at 8,000 pounds, but its 80 batteries powering four electric engines really make it shift. Find out how fast, and watch the video of it…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 19

A Glimpse of the Year 2000 (New York Times, 1982)

“‘You will definitely see this returning to a more human scale society,’ said Hazel Henderson, a freelance futurist, from her post in Gainesville, Fla. ‘It will be more effecient [to] do things locally. It won’t make sense to buy Wonder Bread baked in Illinois'” That prediction couldn’t have been more wrong. Today our food travels…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 26

Paranoid Home Owners Waging War on City-wide Wi-Fi

If New York got city-wide Wi-Fi, I’d be the happiest cat in town, which is why I don’t get the people behind the Healthy Home Alliance in Naperville, IL. They’re actually trying to shut down the city’s attempts at blanketing the town with Wi-Fi. According to the HHA, “Wi-Fi transmitters function at 2.45 GHz, which…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 21

Farnsworth House Becomes Latest Lego Architecture Set to Store Away From Sticky Fingers

Recording a Police Officer Could Get You 15 Years in Jail

Abraham Lincoln As You’ve Never Seen Him

Kites Back In the Olden Days Were a Lot More Serious-Looking

Pluto’s Rightful Place Is Regained… Kind Of

Instant Hot Tub? Just Add Water and Quicklime

Father and Sons Build Electric Car—a Popemobile for Pharaohs

A Glimpse of the Year 2000 (New York Times, 1982)

Paranoid Home Owners Waging War on City-wide Wi-Fi

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